Lane Kiffin...

This was one of his comments after the game...you would hope he could be more gracious in victory....obviously it was a huge disappointment for the team he just beat but he can't help piling on

“You got a sense it was their Super Bowl here, all the official (recruiting) visitors and moving it to a night game, the bye before. So I think it’s even more pleasing to come in here with all that stuff going on and still play really well.”

... I'm okay with that from Kiffen. He's got a really tough coaching job ahead of him for the next few years (assuming he survives). Displaying this kind of militant attitude is what'll help him motivate his kids and continue to pull in top quality recruits.

Wild card here is that USC got hit with Lack of Institutional Control, which is the big whammy. OSU has yet to get tagged with that violation, so whether of not it's 30 at a minimum is not quite so cut and dried....apples and oranges and whatnot.

I watch all their games. That was the first one in two seasons since beating Ohio State in Columbus, where the players looked engaged and emotionally invested. Reminded me of the Carroll USC teams in that way.

The players actually like the guy but he is quirky. Plus he has had to be more business like in how he runs things with the sanctions. There's no movie stars showing up to practice or rappers on the sidelines for games anymore. Players are harshly punished for any off the field junk. He barely says anything out of line to the media, taking his cues from Pat Haden.

They now do 7 a.m. practices because Kiffin felt like they were not attentive enough after a day of classes. It all took some adjusting, but the players are starting to adapt and it seems like they are finally having a little fun. They beat up a very good and hot team tonight on their home field. It was a dominating performance.

Most people outside L.A. probably hate Kiffin, but this could have been the game he needed to establish his program tonight. There's still as much 5-star talent on that roster as anyone and these sanctions won't change that. Stanford is in for a game next week if Barkley keeps going like this.

Especially for Kiffin that's pretty level headed. They've got a big game next week so he's playing it pretty cool. Essentially saying they did everything they could to take us out of this game but we just showed it on the field. No big deal, props to our guys. Our guys got it done, businesslike. Now we move on to next week. Good stuff, I actually respect it.

go ahead and fire the 135-31 coach. After the last 3 years, I won't feel sorry at all for spoiled f'ing fans like that if they get their wish. Grass is always greener isn't it Skippy. Then OU will hire a coach who will come nowhere near what Stoops has done.

They are probably recruiting a lot of the same guys. How the hell ND can still pull big time recruits is beyond me. Time after time ND comes out on the short end of games like these. At what point are they just no longer credible anymore?

are they no longer credible ? Evidentally never, since I remeber this from when I was a kid. I spoke to dinosaurs complaining about the same issue. I hope this remains true for us too, since we need the recruits . At least we hope to get back to the point where we have 5 star recruits and wonder why we don't do better. We are in more danger of losing recruits than they are. Our name is a bit less magical it seems.

ND was so overhyped and I don't understand why. Whatever. And Lane Kiffin is completely different now than from Tennessee. He is so much more serious and collected at SC. He might have left Tennessee in a shitty way, but he left Tennessee in pretty good hands. Either way, he seems like he is a hell of a coach and his staff is doing a good job considering the circumstances.

He left Tennessee in good hands? Please explain this to me. UT didn't have a quarterback or running back and our star linebacker was 5'9. There's a reason UT stats close in the first half and then blown out in the second half: we don't have any depth because we're playing a bunch of freshmen and sophomores. How is a gutted roster and no coaching staff considered "good hands" at all?

I don't mind that from Kiffin either. It was meant to rub a little salt into ND's wound and it succeeded if the NDNation boards are about to go Chernobyl on South Bend. For ND, this was a major rivalry (they've played USC for a century or so, IIRC) and they blew it in a big way.

There was nothing wrong with what he said. In the on field interview at the end of the game he showed no excitement (unlike Harbaugh) and gave ND kudos for their comeback efforts. Also, Pat Haden practically made love to him after the win. Lane is not likely going anywhere.